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I tried The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered for a couple hours last night. It's pretty good. A lot more comprehensive than I anticipated when the "rumor"/leak came out a week earlier; having seen numerous terrible remasters from various companies. I actually like how they handled the (non)marketing and release of this game. Instead of letting (rightly) disgruntled buyers of Starfield poison the discussion about the upcoming next game for months or years, they just worked quietly, then announced and released the game on the very same day.
It runs pretty badly though. I need DLSS Performance mode on my 5090 to get a good framerate in 4k. And there's no HDR for some reason. And the FOV slider doesn't go high enough to undo the eternal shittiness of the Unreal Engine camera. Then there's the incredible blandness of the main quest and the world design, where the 'imperial city' and other towns don't do justice to the lore in the least. And obviously no depth or real choice to the dialogues, ever. No amount of Lumen raytracing can help with those things. Oh well. It's Elder Scrolls. Take the good with the bad.
In any case I intend to have some fun with the game. I picked a Dunmer from Vvardenfell as my character. He's a custom class "battlemage" of sorts. I intend to use blades and destruction magic.
Do any of you have fun character/build/roleplay ideas for how you'll spend your time in Tamriel? What will you be playing over the next week?
Wouldn't mind hearing about builds/ideas/tips for Cyberpunk 2077, btw. I went into CP2077 blind and it's pretty cool. Great graphics. I hope I'll be able to buy property in the game. That dingy building you start out in sucks!
The tutorial dungeon on Master is... certainly an experience, I wonder if the goblin witch is even beatable by non-bretons. The balance is hilariously retarded on this difficulty, I actually struggled against regular rats/goblins until I picked my class and now a basic summon is outputting like 10x my damage. I actually kind of like how gigajuiced the enemies are but I think I need some mod so Conjuration doesn't completely trivialize the game, I like playing summoners.
Netrunner battlemage is the funniest shit I've ever played, stealth archering pales in comparison. It's just weak and clunky enough in the beginning that you have to actually use your brain wrinkles and explore what hacking can do (like distraction or remote detonation), and midgame onwards you can straight murder entire packs with contagious/AOE hacks. Peak l33t h4x0r fantasy, especially with how many ways there are to fuck with enemies (blind, disarm, power word: kys, etc).
I've been playing oblivion on difficulty 4/5. I wanted the game not to be completely trivial. But I think I'd lose any fight that wasn't 1v1. I don't really like how much hp and fatigue I lose by blocking attacks. I've died a handful of times in my 3 hours of playing, due to sudden high dmg attacks. My restoration spell isn't good enough. Even a mudcrab got the better of me once. Skill issue. :) Another one infected me with "swamp fever" early in the game, which I later found out reduced my strength and endurance by 10. You have to go into the menu and find active effects to see these things. It's been too long since I played ES. I should figure out where I can learn some destruction spells. That's one of my major skills and I haven't used it yet.
L33t h4x0r in 2077 sounds like it could be fun. I'll look into it next time I play.
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